Subtitle of this chapter: The line between what everyone hopes is...

“I admit I support the Democratic Party.”

Professor Klein, who seemed a little frustrated, said in a sharp voice: "But I have to admit that in this election, the Democratic candidate Mr. James Cox and his running mate Mr. Roosevelt Jr., they are defeated."

"Then I'm going to ask you why this happens? Students who want to speak, please raise their hands..."

"Well, just you. Mr. Mike Baldwin, please tell me."

Mike, with freckles on his face, stood up excitedly and blurted out: "Wine is because of wine!"

"Hahaha……"

There was a burst of laughter in the class.

"I'm sorry." Mr. Baldwin realized that some of his words were not fulfilled, so he scratched his head and said embarrassedly, "I mean the ban on alcohol, that is, the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution has caused the Democratic Party to be divided..."

The prohibition really had a huge impact on the United States, and one of the consequences was the division of the Democratic Party in 1920.

The Wasp Puritans naturally applauded the prohibition. They wished that the United States would really become a Protestant country with the Anglican Church as the state religion; they hoped that everyone would work hard to build our Great America into a city on the top of the mountain and a chosen country; they wanted to live a life of poverty and piety that "except for having children, no matter how much money is spent on missions."

So the ban on alcohol has not had much impact on the Republican Party so far. However, if the Democratic Party, which is joining together with white minorities to keep warm, will be a big problem.

Latin people, Vikings, Germans, Celtics and Slavs are more likely to drink than each other. Who makes them unable to drink alcohol? It would be nice if they don’t work hard for this guy, and they will still vote? The sun will either have to come out from west.

So the Democratic Party divided the drinking party into two factions: "wet" and "dry" factions, of course, mainly distinguished by race, so that it was not a truly national party in the 1920s. Nowadays, the third largest party in the United States, the Prohibition Party, is no less powerful than the Democratic Party.

If the Great Depression hadn't appeared in time in 1929, the Prohibition would have almost rewritten the two-party system in the United States.

Mike concluded: "Because the Democratic Party, which was not already dominant, was divided into two, and they naturally had no hope of winning."

Professor Klein nodded and said loudly: "Mr. Baldwin is actually right. It is absolutely impossible for a split Democratic Party to defeat the Republican Party."

Professor Klein said: "Please sit, Mike. So who else wants to give his opinion?"

This time there was no one who raised his hand. Of course, these bachelor's and master's students at Stern College did not know the real reason for the Democratic Party's defeat this time, but it was a bit difficult for Democrats, especially those with conscience and posture.

The reason they can't say it is that in 1920, everyone hated Wilson!

Thomas Woodrow-wilson, the 28th chief commander of the United States, was hailed as "the highest academic president in the United States" because he was not only a doctorate in politics at Hopkins University, but also served as the president of Princeton University. By the way, he was the mentor of Seung-man. In 1909, he was successfully elected as governor of New Jersey.

In short, before he was elected president, he had a very good reputation and high reputation, both in politics, academia and among the people. He could be called a representative figure of American progressivism. The so-called progressivism is a middle-left political and economic theory. It hopes that the government will establish a mixed economy (a mixed market economy and planned economy) structure, and promote the continuous progress of labor human rights and social justice under this, hence the name. Progressives are also the earliest supporters of welfare states and antitrust laws.

During his eight years from 1912 to 1920, President Wilson passed a series of progressive bills: including the Clayton-antitrust-act systematized the antitrust law, the 18th constitutional amendment to promulgate the alcohol ban, and the 19th constitutional amendment to establish the right to vote for women. There are also major increases in personal income tax, agricultural subsidy policies that benefit farmers, the 8-hour working hours regulations for railway workers, the illegalization of child labor, and other left-wing policies and regulations. (Author’s note: The 19th constitutional amendment to women’s voting rights was passed in August 1920, but it does not mean that women immediately have the same right to vote as men.)

Of course, the most important thing is as mentioned earlier. He joined forces with the Jewish consortium to create a federal reserve system and establish a national central bank.

It can be said that the Wilson administration ended the long-standing disputes over tariffs, currency and antitrusts in the United States. In fact, these policies had a profound impact on the United States. If it weren't for the neoclassical liberal masters who came out to rectify the situation in the 1960s and 1970s, I, the Great America, might have continued to go left all the way until it became a socialist country with a centrally planned economic system.

To be honest, even without our Master Yuan, although it will take decades tonight, usas is not absolutely impossible. Alas, who told me that such a chairman of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union came out at that time.

In this way, except for a small group of large capitalists, most people in the United States have no reason to hate the Democratic leader who fought for rights for the broad masses of working classes. In fact, in the polls conducted in later generations, he was ranked behind Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt, and was regarded by the American people as the fourth greatest American president.

But this is the idea of ​​Americans in later generations, not the idea of ​​Americans in 1920.

Please don’t forget the war, and the Germans and Chinese, what’s even more amazing is the Treaty of Versailles that Americans also hate and despise!

There is nothing to say about the performance of the US military in World War I. These more than two million young Yankees, with the ambition to save the world, also shoulder the glorious task of collecting accounts for the motherland, traveled across the ocean to old Europe. Then they bumped into the terrifying Hans, and the Spanish flu that was much scarier than Hans... (Note 1)

The influenza killed more people than the total casualties in various countries in World War I!

In any case, the Allies won. Commander Wilson immediately became the savior of the free world. After proposing the "Four-Point Plan" known as the "Program for Building World Peace", his reputation was extremely high. Even at this time, a large number of intellectuals in the Chinese had high hopes for him. (Note 2)

Is it the result...

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Note 1: Although the neutral United States in the early stage of World War I did not refuse orders from both parties to the war, because of Britain and France's advantage in the naval, it was mainly doing business with the Allies. The main reason why the United States participated in World War I was that it did not want the Allies to lose, otherwise it would really not be able to find anyone to collect the accounts. Well, that wasn't the problem of being able to collect the accounts. Maybe a red Europe that killed the United States would appear.
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